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US Vice-President Mike Pence has said his country's "era of strategic patience" with North Korea is over.
Mr Pence first made the remarks at the demilitarised zone (DMZ), the area dividing the two Koreas, during a visit to South Korea to reaffirm ties.
His visit comes amid escalated tensions on the peninsula, with heated rhetoric from both North Korea and the US.
He arrived in Seoul on Sunday hours after North Korea carried out a failed missile launch.
On Monday, the US and South Korea launched a joint air force military exercise to ensure readiness against North Korea, according to South Korean media.
Mr Pence, whose father served in the Korean War, visited the truce village of Panmunjom, where the war's armistice was signed.
'Don't test US resolve'
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Tucker Carlson debated a Democratic congressman over the merits of President Trump's missile strike against a Syrian airfield.
Congressman Seth Moulton (D-Mass.), a former Marine Corps officer, said he agreed with Trump's action in response to a gas attack on Syrian civilians.
However, he said Congress should still investigate whether Trump is working in some level of coordination with the Russians.
Moulton acknowledged that by striking back against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Trump was effectively working against the Russians.
But he noted the U.S. military got the Kremlin's forces out of the base before the strike.
He said that some people could see such a move as an "elaborate ruse" to relieve pressure from Democrats over his alleged Russian ties.
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LGBT Students
Columbia University recently passed a proposal to designate space in the student center as exclusively for minority and LGBT students.
The Columbia College Student Council and Engineering Student Council unanimously passed the proposal, which said the designated space is necessary due to the heightened risk of mental health crises faced by marginalized communities.
Columbia has not yet disclosed whether it will comply with the students’ requests for “resources that could accommodate computers” and a “mounted television.”
“Taking care of our LGBTQ students and students of color and figuring out better ways to do that is always on the minds of student leadership and the Student Affairs Committee,” Student Affairs Committee Co-Chair Sean Ryan said. “In this part